The Quadrant model, first described as "Categories" by the British charity ACT, is primarily useful as a conceptual framework for understanding the broad variety of children and families receiving pediatric palliative care.
The intraclass correlation coefficients for physical activity level described as quintile categories of MET hours per week was 0.70 (95% confidence interval 0.58 0.80), and the proportion of subjects who were classified in exactly the same category or next to the same category in two different tests was 86%.
Meretoja, Erikson & Leino-Kilpi (2002 97) [ 19] outlined a number of indicators for nursing competence which they described as 'domain categories'; these included 'the helping role of the nurse'incorporatinging relevant research into practice' and 'administering medications safely'.
Conducting interviews with different participant-categories is described as a multi-category design ([ 26], p. 31); a strategy that allows comparison within and between participant-categories.
The Trans-Karoo, described as "Tourist Class" - a category between the third-class sitter and Premier Classe - was gratifyingly racially mixed.
Age was described as a three category variable 20-24 yearss, 25-29 yeand, and 30-35 years), then grouped into 2 categories 20-29 yearss and 30-35 years) for further analyses.
Otherwise, sequences are classified as non-standard sequences, and result in the particular cases being described as the fourth category "Other (non-standard sequences)".
Within the last decade, the concept of healthcare-associated (HCA) infection has been introduced, and HCA infection has been described as an epidemiological category different from both community-acquired (CA) and nosocomial infection [ 1, 2].
In Figure 2, the HPV infection pattern is described as 'hierarchic' risk categories; the HPV test results have been classified into risk categories according to the HPV type/types of the highest HPV risk category found in each sample.
